Here we are, a few months since our last major haul out; and we're doing it again. This time at Lauderdale Marine Center, where we'll be getting a new prop shaft, and cutlass bearing. At least that was the plan...
As we hauled the boat so that we could set her down on her keel, and verify the torque as well as fair the keel with a flexible epoxy barrier, we found a TERRIBLE bottom. Full of more barnakles than I've ever seen, we found that we needed to do the bottom as well. This turned a one week $1000 job into a two week $2,000 job.
In the end, it was basically worth it even though we had some issues with the rear portion of the keel "again!"... We're definitely going to become expert at this repair, eventually. The next time we do this, I am deffinitely going to enlist the help of a machinist to fabricate an impressive keel plate; to hell with what Beneteau says, we're going big and we're going thick. Once we torque this puppy down, it will not move!
